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8:55 AM ET, October 11, 2013

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New York Times:
No Quick Deal, but Offer by G.O.P. on Debt Shifts the Tone  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama and House Republicans failed to reach agreement on a six-week extension of the nation's borrowing authority during a meeting Thursday at the White House, but the two sides kept talking …
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New York Times:
An Inadequate Offer From the House  —  Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said he was willing to delay briefly a disastrous default of the country's financial obligations but was not willing to reopen the government.  “I would hope that the president would look at this as an opportunity …
Robert Costa / National Review:
The Ryan Factor  —  According to my sources, the House is poised to pass a six-week extension of the debt ceiling.  One member of the leadership team says he's “increasingly optimistic” that when the bill comes to the floor in the coming days, it'll have significant Republican support.
Washington Post:
Obama, Republicans in debt talks on two fronts  —  President Obama opened talks with House Republicans on Thursday about their plan to lift the federal debt limit through late November, raising hopes that Washington would avert its first default on the national debt.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A Crisis of the President's Own Making  —  Unless Mr. Obama is willing to make a serious deal on spending, he will spend the next three years fighting the same budget wars over and over.  —  For months now, the GOP has been held hostage by a faction of its party that deluded itself …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP rallies around rival plan on debt ceiling, shutdown
Discussion: Politico and Washington Monthly
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Boehner Offers Debt Extension; Interim Resolution?
Discussion: Reuters, Politico and Associated Press
Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown debate damages GOP  —  The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party's popularity declining to its lowest level.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Gallup: Cruz's favorability rating plunges
Discussion: Daily Kos
Benjy Sarlin / msnbc.com:
GOP plummets, Obamacare soars in shutdown standoff
Quin Monson / Utah Data Points:
Senator Lee and the Shutdown
Discussion: Politico
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Down on D.C. Leaders Since Shutdown Began
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks  —  WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man's behavior …
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Kathy Lally / Washington Post:
Snowden's father arrives in Moscow
Discussion: RT, Lawfare, Liberaland and Guardian
Jack Goldsmith / The New Republic:
We Need an Invasive NSA
Discussion: emptywheel and Lawfare
Michael Kinsley / The New Republic:
Obama Should Just Give in to the Republicans  —  President Obama should give in.  Yes, this mess is all the Republicans' fault.  Yes, it's outrageous that they can hold the government hostage in order to reargue a law that's been voted on, signed, enacted, and upheld by the Supreme Court.
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the website's first week, out of tens of millions of Americans in 36 states  — Obamacare's main signup engine attracted just 6,200 new customers on its launch day and 51,000 after the first week
Bob Burns / Indian Country Today Media Network.com:
Blackfeet Elder Says Rick Reilly Misquoted Him; Wants ‘Redskins’ Banned  —  There are a few things I'm passionate about in life, and one is to share the true history of how our people have overcome the trauma of 150 years of attempts to erase the Blackfeet people.
Discussion: USA Today, Deadspin and Mediaite
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Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Rick Reilly's American Indian Father-In-Law Says Reilly Misquoted Him
Discussion: City Desk, CBS DC and ThinkProgress
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Scott Carpenter, One of the Original Seven Astronauts, Is Dead at 88  —  M. Scott Carpenter, whose flight into space in 1962 as the second American to orbit the Earth was marred by technical problems and ended with the nation waiting anxiously to see if he had survived a landing far from the target site, died on Thursday in Denver.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and NPR
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Last Days of the GOP  —  We could be witnessing the death throes of the Republican Party  —  I once wrote about lobbying, and this week I called some Republicans I used to talk to (and some that they recommended I talk to) about the effect the shutdown is having on the Republican Party in Washington.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dealing With Default  —  So Republicans may have decided to raise the debt ceiling without conditions attached — the details still aren't clear.  Maybe that's the end of that particular extortion tactic, but maybe not, because, at best, we're only looking at a very short-term extension.
Facebook:
Reminder: Finishing the Removal of an Old Search Setting  —  Last year we announced the removal of an old setting called “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” along with new controls for managing content on Facebook.  —  The search setting was removed last year for people who weren't using it.
Amy Hollyfield / PolitiFact:
PolitiFact to launch PunditFact, checking pundits and media figures  —  PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website of the Tampa Bay Times, will soon launch PunditFact, a site dedicated to checking claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers and the hosts and guests of talk shows.
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Cory Booker's father, 76, dies  —  Newark Mayor Cory Booker's father died Thursday morning after battling to recover from a recent stroke.  His death comes just days before the New Jersey Democrat faces voters in the state's Oct. 16 special Senate election.
Discussion: Politico
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Steve Lonegan: Obama Will Cave On The Shutdown When I Win My Election
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Nate Silver / Grantland:
The Six Big Takeaways From the Government Shutdown
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and HBR.org
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Scottsdale teacher suspended after parents complain about play's content
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How the U.S. Is Spreading ‘Procedures of Totalitarianism’
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 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Jobless Claims Surge on California, U.S. Federal Shutdown
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Harry J Enten / Guardian:
What the Virginia governor's race tells us about the 2014 midterms
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The “Grand” Perspective
Discussion: Wonkblog and Booman Tribune
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Conservative Media's Tribal Loyalty Weakens the GOP
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Dish